Very nice. Makes me think of http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/app/?survey=P/Mellinge...
Rotate the world
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#12Isn't this also called "Arcball rotation"? The biggest advantage over the naïve implementation is no un-intuitive "sideways" rotation after a few sequences of rotation.
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#13Anyone else tried this on Linux? On Mint 15 and Ubuntu 13.04 FF25 is has >1 second lag. Chrome 30 is fine.
Same thing on Arch linux.
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#14Wow, that's _exactly_ what I needed yesterday. Thanks a lot.
.. however, some more explanation for how the improved rotation works would have been useful.
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#15Anyone else tried this on Linux? On Mint 15 and Ubuntu 13.04 FF25 is has >1 second lag. Chrome 30 is fine.
Same on Mint15 with FF25. It's awesome on Chrome, though!
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#16Anyone else tried this on Linux? On Mint 15 and Ubuntu 13.04 FF25 is has >1 second lag. Chrome 30 is fine.
It's pretty laggy on Windows 7 FF24 too.
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#17This is just my personal preference, but I believe the naive implementation is miles ahead of the improved ones. The improved version needs at least two movements to go to the other side of the world, doesn't follow the rotation if the cursor is too fast and worse than all, performs a gamma rotation for each non-equatorial point of the sphere. Since we have two degrees of freedom on the screen, I expect to use them t…
I agree with you.
I sometimes accidentally rotate Google Maps on my phone when zooming, and it annoys the hell out of me. I'm sure there might be a use case for orienting the map so north isn't up (for example, if you want to look at a route to a place with the place at the top of the map), but I haven't needed it yet. It's much more likely that if I'm using two fingers to gesture on a map, it's because I want to just zoom in and out, not rotate it.
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#18This is just my personal preference, but I believe the naive implementation is miles ahead of the improved ones. The improved version needs at least two movements to go to the other side of the world, doesn't follow the rotation if the cursor is too fast and worse than all, performs a gamma rotation for each non-equatorial point of the sphere. Since we have two degrees of freedom on the screen, I expect to use them t…
I always liked grabbing the white space around the object to just roll. Seems like a nice compromise although probably not too obvious.
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#19Firefox you're breaking my heart. This performs terribly in FF, fine in Chrome.
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#20This is just my personal preference, but I believe the naive implementation is miles ahead of the improved ones. The improved version needs at least two movements to go to the other side of the world, doesn't follow the rotation if the cursor is too fast and worse than all, performs a gamma rotation for each non-equatorial point of the sphere. Since we have two degrees of freedom on the screen, I expect to use them t…
I agree with you. I sometimes accidentally rotate Google Maps on my phone when zooming, and it annoys the hell out of me. I'm sure there might be a use case for orienting the map so north isn't up (for example, if you want to look at a route to a place with the place at the top of the map), but I haven't needed it yet. It's much more likely that if I'm using two fingers to gesture on a map, it's because I want to jus…
As for Google Maps on mobile, some people like to have the map oriented so that "up" is the direction they are facing (i.e. their current direction of travel.) Annoys the hell out of me, too.
On Google Maps, try the single-finger double-tap-and-scroll for zoom without panning and rotation. Kinda nifty.